Why it works: Beef and liver work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 431 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓
Beef Liver for Gravy
Ingredients
Directions
Hang the liver up to drain.
Salt the liver well and leave it in a dish for 24 hours.
Hang it up to drain again until it has stopped dripping.
Store the liver in a dry place for future use.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Beef + livertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together431 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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